From an engineering perspective I love what they have done. I don’t even mind the cost (albeit with the adjustments to config that you suggest). I just worry that it is quite late in the life cycle of the 30 series cards to drop this range.
I kind of wonder why they never tough of using an AM4 motherboard, just AMD aversión or what... just imagine that you got a 1800X in 2017 the crazy upgradeability that would allow, but not they rather put Intel CPUs... what a shame! I really love the ingenuity behind this design, the looks, the cooling, have anyone tried to put an AM4 board inside one of these, or corsair just forbid to reviewers to even try / speak of such a thing on these units?
Just received mine, I looked at 3 top dealers for pre-built systems, and all were in the same price range. The difference is that this one is unique, gorgeous, and powerful. Plays AAA games on ultra without a hiccup, but set the fan on extreme when only playing games. I would recommend this system to anyone.
Great in-depth review once again Dominic 🥰👍. The pricing on the Corsair One has always stopped me from getting one since it’s inception and delivering a few years ago. It’s a shame as it’s a vg compact design. Cheers Dom 🥰👍😇
When it first came out, both sides had same size rads but Corsair later changed CPU size to this smaller one. I have no idea why. There's ample space to fit a longer rad.
I've had my Corsair One for almost a year, 5900x/3080ti, and it has been flawless. I primarily use it for 3d modeling and rendering (Blender) and it is a stellar performer. Sleek, small, fast and quiet. I purchased mine during a price cut, about 2700.00 U.S. out the door, which apparently is a bargain.
I think the pricing is a little strange because we're just coming out of the GPU shortage, hopefully with the next generation of Corsair ONEs pricing will stabilize.
I'm using a 1st gen from 2018 (1080ti + 8700k). It's so old, support ended a long time ago. Even their ICUE software doesn't support it. Many modern programs don't. Took me a long time to figure out the pre-installed and long discontinued Corsair link is trash in terms of fan control. BIOS info about the top system fan is incorrect as well. And weirdly, the top fan is linked to GPU temps for some reason, even if BIO says it's linked to CPU. But other than that, the hardware has worked amazingly over the years. Very quiet when idle. Truely remarkable performance and temperatures. Lots of overclocking headroom.
I actually was about to press buy now at my local store.. A ready to go system that will be amazing for music studio use as well as gaming, and I don't have to do anything but plug it in. But one thing stopped me. The fact I can't put a second NVME in let alone a 2.5" lol. But heck, no matter what, they could have put a slot somewhere to insert a second ssd. 2TB is nothing to me and I don't want to rely completely on thunderbolt drives. So that was the killer. What a shame. I hope they rethink this when the RTX 4000 models come out.
@@cloverhal2284 every review I read says you need to pull it completely apart to access the board.. that negates the entire purpose of me for a turnkey system AND voids the warranty which they are very clear about. I might as well build one if I am going to do that... I already have one made up ready to add to cart, 64GB, 12700K, 3080, 2x2TB SSD NVME Gen 4 (Seagate 530), 2x4TB SSD 2.5" (860 Evo, no QLC nand for me)! Total 12TB SSD storage, blu ray burner as I still have use for it, Fractal Case, noctua case fans and Chromax cooler (12700K is fine on air), 1000 W be quiet PSU etc, it comes out cheaper although the CPU and gpu are one step down from the corsair. But the 12700K is way easier to cool and plenty for me and all my use case:) Will be expandable and serviceable, can put a 4000 in there any time, and so on. The thing is I really wanted to avoid doing it but it seems there is no pre built quiet enough other than the corsair, or good enough overall to really convince me to buy a pre built. I want it quiet in the music studio when recording and I am sure the corsair does that brilliantly, but that 2TB. Such a shame. All the other off the shelf desktops are noisy, really noisy. Impossible to record with. I have a decision to make but I just can't see myself accepting 2TB SSD total. To be honest it would even make sense for me to build another 10900k system, outdated but dirt cheap, with thunderbolt 3 which work with all my audio devices where thunderbolt 4 doesn't (as they are thunderbolt 2 and you can't use adapter for TB4 to TB2). I have a LOT of outboard studio gear, I don't use the computer effects an virtual instruments much The other thing I need to know is the DPC latency of the corsair, it is vital for a studio, I wonder why no one ever tests these besides a few good reviewers. Latencymon is the program, it's free!
I have a Corsair One from the last generation. Mine had HDMI on the front in place of the USB-C. I find the USB-C much more useful. I don't use HDMI at all and I use USB-C drives daily. Unfortunately mine is on the back.
That cooling solution should be perfectly OK for at least one more generation, Lovelace will have basically identical (couple mm difference in pcb layout, but same cooler fit because of relative dimensions are same) so you should be OK, it's probably ref pcb.. . Lovelace power consumption is another thing, but you can tweak settings or swap psu, it's just a sff, so no biggie... But you have to know that corsair one is highly integrated system and it's like you'd expect to upgrade your phone's storage...
A single system fan would be more accurate. The two 80mm fans on the GPU are only to direct air over the VRM and memory heatsinks, not for chassis airflow
Let's not forget that these default profiles for fans, voltages and clock speed are not optimized to the specific silicon. I would wager that you could gain a few mhz and lower temps a few C and lower fan speed by tweaking the under underclock settings for both the cpu and gpu. With a system this compact and pricey.. it would be worth a few hours to optimize settings.
Agreed, for an enthusiast that would be well worth doing. I'm not sure how much of the target market for the Corsair One would do so however, I'd think most just want something that works out of the box with no effort required
I wish they'd offer more customizable lower spec versions for lower prices. For instance, I'd only use it for gaming so I would not pay for i9, 64g of ram and 2tb ssd. Hack, for 1440p, I wouldn't even wanna pay for a 3080ti. But I really do like the design and appreciate the convenience of a pre-built. So the insane price does have something to do with them completely maxing out the specs, even on their lowest tier models.
Maybe, but I can't see anyone sending this money on a Corsair One to hook it up to a 1080p monitor... an RTX 3050 and i3 would be enough for that, let alone 3080 Ti and 12900K
I question Corsair’s decision to send review samples out with the higher performing BIOS, especially when the retail slower BIOS version is already 6 months old. That seems shady AF. Glad you caught them on their shenanigans.
@Gavin Townsley The MB is "custom-made" in the sense that it might be MSI, for example, but the bios update from MSI's support site won't be compatible. It has to come from Corsair product support. If they decided to cease support for this model, then you won't be updating to newer bios versions. At least this is true for older models that were not supported by ICUE.
@@KitGuruTech thanks for the reply, and for pointing it out. I know this is already an old review, but no mention of thermal throttling or impact on performance thereof was what I was mainly looking for, couldn't find much more than the mention of the gpu frequency. I believe even the i160 had throttling issues with the default settings, so I'd be surprised if the higher frequency and power draw parts would not have any challenges. I'm currently planning a custom build in this case, and I'm trying to find all available information I can on it to prepare for any issues I might come up against.
How about some frequencies and temps *during* Cinebench R23? real world scenario for many of us.. Very disappointed with your overall testing. CB23 reflects a good video editing reader load and a heavy audio project using all cores and only using the cpu not the GPU.
The Corsair One has always been extremely overpriced for what you get, but it's a unique form factor for sure. There are plenty of rival SFF self-build options which smash it value wise. It would be great if you could buy the case as a barebones model and fit your own hardware - the cpu side would be no problem but probably the GPU side would be a bit more tricky.
Anyone interested in a mini PC like the Corsair One? Or do you prefer the size and upgradability of a traditional desktop? Let us know your thoughts
From an engineering perspective I love what they have done. I don’t even mind the cost (albeit with the adjustments to config that you suggest). I just worry that it is quite late in the life cycle of the 30 series cards to drop this range.
@@grantbaxter3669 I'd agree to be honest, especially with the unlikelyhood of dropping in 40-series upgrade in the Corsair One
Not at this price
I kind of wonder why they never tough of using an AM4 motherboard, just AMD aversión or what... just imagine that you got a 1800X in 2017 the crazy upgradeability that would allow, but not they rather put Intel CPUs... what a shame! I really love the ingenuity behind this design, the looks, the cooling, have anyone tried to put an AM4 board inside one of these, or corsair just forbid to reviewers to even try / speak of such a thing on these units?
Nothing mini about it, lol. Still liking my cm nr200p with an 6950XT and a 5900X. Keep up the great work you guys.
Just received mine, I looked at 3 top dealers for pre-built systems, and all were in the same price range. The difference is that this one is unique, gorgeous, and powerful. Plays AAA games on ultra without a hiccup, but set the fan on extreme when only playing games. I would recommend this system to anyone.
Great in-depth review once again Dominic 🥰👍. The pricing on the Corsair One has always stopped me from getting one since it’s inception and delivering a few years ago. It’s a shame as it’s a vg compact design. Cheers Dom 🥰👍😇
Never saw this host till now but i really enjoyed his presentation .
When it first came out, both sides had same size rads but Corsair later changed CPU size to this smaller one. I have no idea why. There's ample space to fit a longer rad.
I've had my Corsair One for almost a year, 5900x/3080ti, and it has been flawless. I primarily use it for 3d modeling and rendering (Blender) and it is a stellar performer. Sleek, small, fast and quiet. I purchased mine during a price cut, about 2700.00 U.S. out the door, which apparently is a bargain.
I think the pricing is a little strange because we're just coming out of the GPU shortage, hopefully with the next generation of Corsair ONEs pricing will stabilize.
I'm using a 1st gen from 2018 (1080ti + 8700k). It's so old, support ended a long time ago. Even their ICUE software doesn't support it. Many modern programs don't.
Took me a long time to figure out the pre-installed and long discontinued Corsair link is trash in terms of fan control. BIOS info about the top system fan is incorrect as well. And weirdly, the top fan is linked to GPU temps for some reason, even if BIO says it's linked to CPU.
But other than that, the hardware has worked amazingly over the years. Very quiet when idle. Truely remarkable performance and temperatures. Lots of overclocking headroom.
Case looks very stylish.
I actually was about to press buy now at my local store.. A ready to go system that will be amazing for music studio use as well as gaming, and I don't have to do anything but plug it in.
But one thing stopped me. The fact I can't put a second NVME in let alone a 2.5" lol. But heck, no matter what, they could have put a slot somewhere to insert a second ssd. 2TB is nothing to me and I don't want to rely completely on thunderbolt drives.
So that was the killer. What a shame. I hope they rethink this when the RTX 4000 models come out.
If you get this version the msi meg z690i unify motherboard they use can accommodate up to 2 NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0 plus one PCIe 3.0
@@cloverhal2284 every review I read says you need to pull it completely apart to access the board.. that negates the entire purpose of me for a turnkey system AND voids the warranty which they are very clear about. I might as well build one if I am going to do that...
I already have one made up ready to add to cart, 64GB, 12700K, 3080, 2x2TB SSD NVME Gen 4 (Seagate 530), 2x4TB SSD 2.5" (860 Evo, no QLC nand for me)!
Total 12TB SSD storage, blu ray burner as I still have use for it, Fractal Case, noctua case fans and Chromax cooler (12700K is fine on air), 1000 W be quiet PSU etc, it comes out cheaper although the CPU and gpu are one step down from the corsair. But the 12700K is way easier to cool and plenty for me and all my use case:)
Will be expandable and serviceable, can put a 4000 in there any time, and so on.
The thing is I really wanted to avoid doing it but it seems there is no pre built quiet enough other than the corsair, or good enough overall to really convince me to buy a pre built. I want it quiet in the music studio when recording and I am sure the corsair does that brilliantly, but that 2TB. Such a shame. All the other off the shelf desktops are noisy, really noisy. Impossible to record with.
I have a decision to make but I just can't see myself accepting 2TB SSD total. To be honest it would even make sense for me to build another 10900k system, outdated but dirt cheap, with thunderbolt 3 which work with all my audio devices where thunderbolt 4 doesn't (as they are thunderbolt 2 and you can't use adapter for TB4 to TB2).
I have a LOT of outboard studio gear, I don't use the computer effects an virtual instruments much
The other thing I need to know is the DPC latency of the corsair, it is vital for a studio, I wonder why no one ever tests these besides a few good reviewers.
Latencymon is the program, it's free!
I'm super excited for the i400 or a300 (still waiting on Raptor Lake specs compared to Zen 4)
I have a Corsair One from the last generation. Mine had HDMI on the front in place of the USB-C. I find the USB-C much more useful. I don't use HDMI at all and I use USB-C drives daily. Unfortunately mine is on the back.
That cooling solution should be perfectly OK for at least one more generation, Lovelace will have basically identical (couple mm difference in pcb layout, but same cooler fit because of relative dimensions are same) so you should be OK, it's probably ref pcb.. . Lovelace power consumption is another thing, but you can tweak settings or swap psu, it's just a sff, so no biggie... But you have to know that corsair one is highly integrated system and it's like you'd expect to upgrade your phone's storage...
3:02 "only a single fan in the roof" - There's literally two fans in shot, neither of which are in the roof...
A single system fan would be more accurate. The two 80mm fans on the GPU are only to direct air over the VRM and memory heatsinks, not for chassis airflow
@@KitGuruTech Cool, I thought I was going mad lol
Does this thing have an external power brick at all? Sorry if its a silly question.
11:55 or they deliberately sent reviewers the higher power versions so they would benchmark better while sending out the limited ones to consumers?
I couldn't actually find a config that uses the 3080 TI alongside the 12900
Found the 3080ti for $3700, kinda tempted for that price.
Great review my friend, I just purchased this computer!!
Let's not forget that these default profiles for fans, voltages and clock speed are not optimized to the specific silicon. I would wager that you could gain a few mhz and lower temps a few C and lower fan speed by tweaking the under underclock settings for both the cpu and gpu. With a system this compact and pricey.. it would be worth a few hours to optimize settings.
Agreed, for an enthusiast that would be well worth doing. I'm not sure how much of the target market for the Corsair One would do so however, I'd think most just want something that works out of the box with no effort required
@@KitGuruTech well.. they could hire me to do so ha
hopefully I think you have stopped a load of people wasting there money. Not saying its a bad PC, just the insane price
Hardly upgradable,pricey (for what you get).......👎
I wish they'd offer more customizable lower spec versions for lower prices. For instance, I'd only use it for gaming so I would not pay for i9, 64g of ram and 2tb ssd. Hack, for 1440p, I wouldn't even wanna pay for a 3080ti. But I really do like the design and appreciate the convenience of a pre-built. So the insane price does have something to do with them completely maxing out the specs, even on their lowest tier models.
Its about the form factor as well.
You should have tested the games at 1080p. This would have shown a more significant difference.
Maybe, but I can't see anyone sending this money on a Corsair One to hook it up to a 1080p monitor... an RTX 3050 and i3 would be enough for that, let alone 3080 Ti and 12900K
Honestly when there are systems like iquinix zx1 form t1 v2 ghost s1 and Dan a4 h2o, the Corsair one is such a hard sell imo.
I question Corsair’s decision to send review samples out with the higher performing BIOS, especially when the retail slower BIOS version is already 6 months old. That seems shady AF. Glad you caught them on their shenanigans.
Also they cut the radiators in half compared to earlier models.
@Gavin Townsley The MB is "custom-made" in the sense that it might be MSI, for example, but the bios update from MSI's support site won't be compatible. It has to come from Corsair product support. If they decided to cease support for this model, then you won't be updating to newer bios versions. At least this is true for older models that were not supported by ICUE.
Interesting no mention of thermals at all?
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@@KitGuruTech thanks for the reply, and for pointing it out.
I know this is already an old review, but no mention of thermal throttling or impact on performance thereof was what I was mainly looking for, couldn't find much more than the mention of the gpu frequency. I believe even the i160 had throttling issues with the default settings, so I'd be surprised if the higher frequency and power draw parts would not have any challenges.
I'm currently planning a custom build in this case, and I'm trying to find all available information I can on it to prepare for any issues I might come up against.
9:43 Which is the msi case you're using in this test ?
How about some frequencies and temps *during* Cinebench R23? real world scenario for many of us.. Very disappointed with your overall testing.
CB23 reflects a good video editing reader load and a heavy audio project using all cores and only using the cpu not the GPU.
Great review horrendous price
Do these have Ryzen CPU options? A 5950X would work much better in these as it has 1/3 the TDP of a 12900K
Yes that would be the A200 model, we do show this at 22:29. It could be a very good alternative
Great review.
With that fan it reminds me of the Xbox series X
The Corsair One has always been extremely overpriced for what you get, but it's a unique form factor for sure. There are plenty of rival SFF self-build options which smash it value wise.
It would be great if you could buy the case as a barebones model and fit your own hardware - the cpu side would be no problem but probably the GPU side would be a bit more tricky.
You're paying for a water-cooled GPU that you normally wouldn't get, especially in pre-builts.
This is one sexy looking little beast!!!!
21:25 - BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is the perfect system for streamers tbh.
$5000 ?
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